cacophonous

英语

词源

源自古希腊语 κακός (kakós, “坏的”) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “嗓音”)。

发音

• (通用美式) 国际音标^(帮助): /kəˈkɑfənəs/
• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助): /kəˈkɒfənəs/

• （美国）音频：

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形容词

cacophonous (比较级 more cacophonous，最高级 most cacophonous)

1. 刺耳的，难听的，走调的
   • 1961年11月10日, Joseph Heller, “The Texan”, 出自 Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC，第 46 页:

     […] Huple had rescued them just in time by seizing the controls back from Dobbs and leveling the ship out almost as suddenly right back in the middle of the buffeting layer of cacophonous flak from which they had escaped successfully only a moment before.

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   • 1993, Mike Leigh, Naked, 角色 Brian（Peter Wight）:

     The good thing about this job is that it gives me time and space to contemplate the future at my leisure, whilst the city sleeps, free from the cacophonous curiosity of the hoi polloi.

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   • 2006, Everett True, Nirvana: The Biography, Da Capo Press, 出版于 2007, →ISBN，第 58 页:

     The first time I saw the NYC quartet [Sonic Youth] was in 1983 for their Confusion Is Sex album, when they filled The Venue in Victoria, London with a cacophonous maelstrom of mangled sounds that still reverberates, more than two decades on.

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   • 2011, Fern Michaels, To Taste the Wine, Kensington Books, 出版于 2011, →ISBN，第 153 页:

     […] and the cacophonous clatter of pots and pans accompanied the vociferous complaints of the ship's cook.

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   • 2012, Michael D. Breed & Janice Moore, Animal Behavior, Academic Press (2012), ISBN 9780123725813, page 199 (image caption):

     A colony of pelicans can be cacophonous.

近义词

• inharmonious、unmusical、unmelodic

反义词

• harmonious、musical、euphonious

相关词汇

• cacophony
• cacophonic
• cacophonously